Mangai Natarajan is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. She is an award-winning policy-oriented researcher who has published widely in international criminal justice. To date she has edited ten books including a special issue on Crime in Developing Countries for Crime Science Journal and authored a monograph, Women Police in a Changing Society: Back Door to Equality (2008). She is the founding director of the International Criminal Justice Major at John Jay.